BY MOSHE HILL OPINION COLUMNS DECEMBER 10 2025
When the X account “StopAntisemitism” put out its annual list of finalists for their “Anti-Semite of the Year” award, a social media firestorm was ignited. This was due to the inclusion of Rachel Griffin Accurso, otherwise known as Ms. Rachel, who has built a multimillion-dollar empire on the promise that she is unconditionally “pro-child.” Her brand is pastel-soaked, puppet-filled, and meant for toddlers. Yet a closer look at her public positions reveals a far more selective definition of which children deserve her voice and which ones can be quietly ignored when the politics become inconvenient.
Ms. Rachel reacted to the announcement with feigned shock and crocodile tears. “I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial,” she said in reaction to this announcement. That statement, however, is indicative of why she deserved the nomination in the first place. The loaded statement—the assumption of a fact that has no evidence—is fomenting the very antisemitism she is accused of. It is equivalent to a 15th-century accusation of “I never thought wanting Christian blood not to be baked into matzah would be considered controversial.”
Ms. Rachel and her defenders claim that she only cares about children—all children—yet that is clearly false. She is, like so many in entertainment these days, politically compromised. Like Bill Nye the Science Guy setting a globe on fire or retracting past statements on there being two genders, Ms. Rachel conveniently ignores narratives that contradict the worldview she is imposing on the children still unfortunate enough to view her mindless slop of a program. Like every stance, there are trade-offs and other perspectives that Ms. Rachel ignores.
October 7 saw the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust: 1,200 murdered, dozens of children and babies slaughtered, many burned alive or beheaded, infants and toddlers kidnapped into Gaza’s tunnel system. For twelve full days, Ms. Rachel said nothing at all on her platforms—no post, no story, no song about peace, no acknowledgement that Jewish children had just been massacred in their cribs and hundreds more left orphaned.
Her silence ended on October 19, twelve days later, and only after the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion hoax in Gaza City. That incident—initially misreported by Hamas-aligned sources as an Israeli strike that killed 500 people—was the first moment the Western progressive commentariat deemed it socially acceptable to pivot from horror at Hamas to outrage at Israel. Within hours of that (later debunked) narrative dominating global headlines, Ms. Rachel finally broke her silence with a pastel-colored call for “peace” and “humanity for all children.”
This was not oversight; it was calculation. The same woman who can mobilize millions of dollars for Gaza relief in 48 hours could have posted a single sentence condemning the murder of Jewish toddlers. She chose not to, because her audience—upper-middle-class, college-educated, overwhelmingly progressive—had already moved on. Jewish victims never mattered to her, so the claims that she “just cares about children” do not hold water.
This selective activism is not an anomaly; it is the through-line of her entire public persona.
Consider her enthusiastic embrace of pediatric gender medicine and childhood social transition. For years, Ms. Rachel has used her platform to teach three- and four-year-olds about pronouns, non-binary identities, and the idea that some children can be “born in the wrong body.” She features drag performers in her videos and celebrates “trans kids” with the same sunny enthusiasm she once reserved for teaching the alphabet.
Yet decades of follow-up data from Sweden, Finland, the UK’s Cass Review, and now Norway and Denmark show that the majority of children with childhood-onset gender dysphoria naturally resolve those feelings by the end of puberty if left alone. The countries that pioneered youth gender clinics are now shutting them down or severely restricting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, citing weak evidence and irreversible harm.
Ms. Rachel never mentions those children: the detransitioners who wake up in their twenties with sterilized bodies, chronic pain, and lifelong dependence on medication; the girls who underwent double mastectomies at sixteen only to regret it; the boys who now speak in permanently altered voices because they were told it was the only way to be their “authentic selves.” These are children, too. But acknowledging their existence would complicate the narrative that sells the $49.99 “Love Is Love” onesie.
Every political stance has trade-offs. Teaching toddlers that biological sex is a spectrum and that medical transition is a human right means some percentage of those toddlers will end up on a pathway of lifelong pharmaceutical dependence and surgical alteration. That is not theoretical; it is happening right now in American gender clinics that have tripled, quadrupled, and in some cases increased twenty-fold in the last decade. Ms. Rachel is not merely “affirming”; she is actively grooming an audience to see that pathway as not just acceptable, but celebratory.
The same selective blindness appears in her Gaza activism. By amplifying false Hamas-aligned casualty figures without caveat, by pushing debunked lies about starvation and mass slaughter, and by platforming actual terrorist sympathizers and relatives, she contributes—whether she intends to or not—to an atmosphere in which Jewish kindergarteners now need armed guards at preschool.
A new report card released by StopAntisemitism (yes, the same group that nominated Ms. Rachel for “Anti-Semite of the Year”) delivers failing F grades to 14 elite U.S. colleges—including Columbia, Harvard, Yale, UPenn, and UC Berkeley—for how Jewish students are treated on their campuses. Based on surveys of Jewish students and documented incidents, the study reveals a grim reality: 58% of respondents faced antisemitic harassment, 39% hid their Jewish identities to avoid danger, and 62% were personally blamed for Israel’s defensive actions in Gaza, with 65% feeling unwelcome in once-safe academic spaces. Only 12% saw their schools effectively address complaints, underscoring a pattern of deliberate indifference that federal probes have flagged at places like Columbia, where vandalism, hate emails, and pro-terrorist disruptions have proliferated unchecked.
As StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez put it, “Antisemitism on American college campuses is systemic and tolerated,” a damning indictment that echoes the very cultural currents Ms. Rachel’s selective activism helps amplify. These are college students, while Ms. Rachel pushes the same messages on preschoolers. What hope do Jewish students have in the future competing with that level of indoctrination?
Is there a way to tell what’s in Ms. Rachel’s heart, if she truly hates Jews? Obviously there is not. Yet she foments an antisemitism that is actively harming countless children out there. If she is as “pro-child” as she claims to be, she would perform a massive about-face on her content. Judging by how much money she’s making off this political stance, however, she won’t change anytime soon.
